Peter Harrison: Principal Publications

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by  Peter Harrison

Curriculum Vitae

Peter Harrison

Personal Details
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Address (Work) Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED)
Forgan-Smith Building, Level 5
The University of Queensland
Qld 4072
Australia

Email. [email protected]

Address (Home) 24 Marlborough Street
Sherwood
Qld. 4075
Australia.

Date of Birth: 29 November, 1955

Professional Qualifications
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DLitt 2013. University of Oxford
MA 2007. University of Oxford
PhD 1989. University of Queensland
MA 1985. Yale University
BA 1983. University of Queensland (1st Class Honours)
Dip Ed 1977. University of Queensland
BSc 1976. University of Queensland

Career History
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Australian Laureate Fellow, 2015-19

Research Professor and Director, Centre for the History of European Discourses,
University of Queensland, 2011-

Senior Research Fellow, Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, 2011-

Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion; Director of the Ian Ramsey
Centre, Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, 2007-11
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of History and Philosophy, Bond
University, 1989-2006

Research Specializations
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1. Early Modern Intellectual History
2. Science and Religion
3. History of Science

Grants, Fellowships, and Honours
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• Australian Laureate Fellowship, ‘Science and Secularization’ (AUD 2.6m),
2015-19
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• The Faraday Institute, Cambridge, UAB Grant, ‘Evolutionism, Atheism, and
Mass Persuasion’, (GBP 120,000) 2013-15

• The Historical Society, Boston, RIHA Grant, ‘Religion, Naturalism, and
Scientific Progress’ (US$100,000) 2012-14

• The Historical Society, Boston, RIHA Grant, ‘Religion, History and the
Secular’ (US$75,000), 2012-14

• TWCF Grant: ‘Science, Progress and History’. ($800,000) 2011-14.

• AHRC Research Fellowship, ‘Religion and the Origins of Modern Science’
(£63,000), 2010-11

• Gifford Lecturer (Edinburgh)’Science, Religion and Modernity’, 6 Lectures,
2010-11

• Templeton Foundation, ‘God, Philosophy, and Science: Science and Religion
Programme Support for the Ian Ramsey Centre’, (US$1m) 2009-14.

• Mellon Foundation, “Cultures of Knowledge” Project (£2.8m). Co-PI with 6
Oxford colleagues; Chair, Management Committee. 2008-11

• Christ Church, Oxford. Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellowship. 2007 (declined)

• ARC Discovery Grant, ‘Philosophy, the Religious Life, and the Making of
Modern Science’, ($133,000). 2007-9 (declined).

• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Elizabeth and J. Richardson
Dilworth Fellowship, January–August, 2005

• Bruce Mansfield Prize (Religious History) 2005

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• Vice-Chancellor’s Award (Research Excellence), 2004

• ARC Discovery Grant ($80,000) ‘Science and Religion in Early Modern
Europe’, 2004-6

• Centenary Medal. Australian Honours, General List, ‘For Service to Australian
Society and the Humanities in the Study of Philosophy and Religion’. 2003

• Foundation member, International Society for Science and Religion. 2002

• ARC Large Grant ($110,000) ‘The Bible and Natural Philosophy in 17th-
Century England’. 2001-3

• Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Elizabethan
Club Fellowship in Renaissance History and Literature, April, 2001

• Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ. J. Houston Witherspoon
Research Fellow in Science and Religion, January–December , 2001

• Huntington Library, Los Angeles, Mayers Research Fellowship (4- month
Fellowship with Stipend, declined) 2000

• Templeton Foundation Prizes for Exemplary Papers in Religion and the Natural
Sciences. 1997, 1998, 1999

• Templeton Foundation Award for Science and Religion Course. 1998

• Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 1998

• Dean’s Research Award. 1998

• Bond-Oxford Fellowship, Harris Manchester College, (1-month Fellowship)
1996

• ARC Small Grant. ‘Theories of the Earth in England: 1650-1750’. 1995

• Bond University Vice-Chancellor's Research Grant. 1992

• Yale Fellowship. 1984

• Rotary International Fellowship (declined). 1984

• Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award. 1983

Principal Publications
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[I] MONOGRAPHS

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The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015),.

The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007),
pp. xii + 300; paperback edn. 2009. (25 reviews)
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press,
1998), pp. xiii + 313; paperback edn., 2001. (37 reviews)
‘Religion’ and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge University
Press, 1990), pp. ix + 277; paperback edn., 2002. (25 reviews)
[II] EDITED BOOKS
The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press,
2010). pp. xi +307. Portuguese translation, Editora Santuário / Idéias & Letras,
forthcoming. (23 reviews),
Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2011), pp. x +416, with Ronald Numbers and Michael Shank. (9 reviews)
[III] JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Sentiments of Devotion and Experimental Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century
England’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44 (2014), 113-133.
‘Francis Bacon, Natural Philosophy and the Cultivation of the Mind’, Perspectives on
Science 20 (2012), 139-158.
‘Adam Smith and the History of the Invisible Hand’, Journal of the History of Ideas 72
(2011), 29-49.
‘Experimental Religion and Experimental Science in Early Modern England’,
Intellectual History Review 21 (2011), 413-433.
‘A Scientific Buddhism?’, Zygon 45 (2010), 861-69.
‘Religion and the Early Royal Society’, Science and Christian Belief 22 (2010), 3-22.
‘Voluntarism and the Origins of Modern Science: A Reply to John Henry’, History of
Science 47 (2009), 223-31.
‘Linnaeus as a Second Adam? Taxonomy and the Religious Vocation’, Zygon 44
(2009) 879-93.
‘The Bible and the Rise of Science: A Rejoinder’, Science and Christian Belief 21
(2009), 155-62.
‘Religion, the Royal Society, and the Rise of Science’, Theology and Science, 6
(2008), 255-71.
‘Was There a Scientific Revolution?’, European Review 15 (2007), 445-57. Repr. in
Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009)

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‘Moral Progress and Early Modern Science’, Historically Speaking 9/1 (2007), 13-14.
‘“Science” and “Religion”: Constructing the Boundaries’, The Journal of Religion 86
(2006), 81-106. Repr. in Thomas Dixon, Stephen Pumphrey and Geoffrey Cantor
(eds.), Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010), pp. 23-49. Portuguese tr., ‘“Ciência” e “Religião”:
Construindo os Limites’, Revista de Estudos da Religião, 7 (2007), 1-33; Estonian
tr. ‘”Teadus" ja “religioon": Piirjooni kujundades’, Akadeemia 7 (2013), 453-64,
579-603; German tr. ‘„Wissenschaft“ und „Religion“: Das Konstruieren der
Grenzen’, forthcoming 2013.
‘Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion’, Church History 75 (2006),
493-511.
‘Reassessing the Butterfield Thesis’, Historically Speaking , 8 (2006), 7-10, 16-17.
Repr. in Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), Recent Themes in the History of Science and
Religion (Columbia, 2009), pp. 65-72.
‘The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science’, Science and Christian Belief, 18
(2006), 115-132. Repr. in Religion and Science: Critical Concepts in Religious
Studies, ed. Sara Fletcher Harding and Nancy Morvillo (Routledge, 2010).
‘“Fill the Earth and Subdue it”: Biblical Warrants for Colonization in Seventeenth
Century England’, Journal of Religious History 29 (2005), 3-24. (Winner of the
Bruce Mansfield Prize)
‘Original Sin and the Problem of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, Journal of the
History of Ideas 63 (2002), 239-59.
‘Voluntarism and Early Modern Science’, History of Science 40 (2002), 63-89.
‘Fixing the Meaning of Scripture: The Renaissance Bible and the Origins of
Modernity’, Concilium 294 (2002), 102-110 (tr. into German, French, Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese).
‘Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in Early-
Modern England’, Isis 92 (2001), 265-90.
‘Prophecy, Early-Modern Apologetics, and Hume’s Argument against Miracles’,
Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1999) 241-57.
‘Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature’,
The Journal of Religion 79 (1999) 86-109.
‘The Virtues of Animals in Seventeenth-Century Thought’, Journal of the History of
Ideas 59 (1998) 463-85.
‘God and Animal Minds’, Sophia 35 (1996), 67-78.
‘Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature’, Journal of the History of
Ideas, 56 (1995), 531-53.

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‘British Views on Religion and Religions in the Age of William and Mary: A
Response to David A. Pailin’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 7 (1995),
273-281.
‘The Neo-Cartesian Revival: A Response’, Between the Species 9 (1993), 71-6.
‘Animal Souls, Metempsychosis, and Theodicy in Seventeenth-Century English
Thought’, Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), 519-44.
‘Descartes on Animals’, Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992), 239-48.
‘Do Animals Feel Pain?’, Philosophy 66 (1991) 25-40. Reprinted in Eldon Soifer (ed.),
Ethical Issues, 2nd edn., (New York: Broadview, 1996).
‘Theodicy and Animal Pain’, Philosophy 64 (1989) 79-92. Revised version published
as 'Animal Pain' in Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum (eds.), Animal
Experimentation: The Moral Issues (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1991).
‘Karl Barth and the Non-Christian Religions’, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 23
(1986), 207-224.
‘Correlation and Theology: Barth and Tillich Re-examined’, Studies in
Religion/Sciences Religieuses 15 (1986), 65-76.
[IV] BOOK CHAPTERS AND ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLES
‘Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to
Newtonianism’, in Eric Watkins (ed.), The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the
Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press,
2013), pp. 127-48.
‘Early Modern Science and the Idea of Moral Progress’, in Donald Yerxa (ed.), British
Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History (Columbia: University
of South Carolina Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-61117-015-3
‘The Conflict Thesis’ and ‘The Two Books Metaphor’ in R. J. Berry (ed.), The Lion
Handbook to Science and Christianity (Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2012), pp. 57-8, 60-1.
‘Laws of Nature, Moral Order and the Intelligibility of the Cosmos’, in Donald York,
Owen Gingerich, and Shuang-Nan Zhang (eds.), The Astronomy Revolution: 400
Years of Explaining the Cosmos (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2011), pp. 375-86.
‘Introduction’ and ‘Natural History’, in Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers and
Michael H. Shank (eds.), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 1-7; 117-148.
‘Early Christianity’ (with David C. Lindberg), in John Hedley Brooke and Ronald
L.Numbers (eds.), Science and Religion around the World: Historical Perspectives
(Oxford: OUP, 2011), pp. 67-91.
‘Adam Smith, Natural Theology, and the Natural Sciences’, in Adam Smith as
Theologian, ed. Paul Oslington (Routledge, 2011), pp. 77-91.

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‘The Cultural Authority of Natural History in Early Modern Europe’, in Denis
Alexander and Ronald Numbers (eds.), Biology and Ideology: From Descartes to
Dawkins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 11-35.
‘Theology and Matter Theory in the Early Modern Period’, in Matter and Meaning, ed.
Michael Fuller (Newscastle: CSP, 2010), pp. 39-56.
‘That René Descartes originated the Mind-Body Distinction’, in Ronald Numbers
(ed.), Galileo goes to Jail and other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard
University Press, 2009), pp. 107-114.
‘History and People: Introduction’, ‘The Enlightenment’, and ‘The Handmaiden
Metaphor’, in Heidi Campbell and Heather Looy (eds.), The Science and Religion
Primer (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2009).
‘Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers’, in Scott Mandelbrote and J.
van der Meer (eds.), Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: To 1700, 2
vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2009), Vol. 1, pp. 341-62.
‘The Development of the Concept of Laws of Nature’, in Fraser Watts (ed.), Creation:
Law and Probability (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 13-36.
‘Philosophy and the Crisis of Religion’, in James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp.
234-49.
‘The Fashioned Image of Poetry or the Regular Instruction of Philosophy?’: Truth,
Utility, and the Natural Sciences in Early Modern England’, in D. Burchill and J.
Cummins (eds.), Science, Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
(Ashgate, 2007), pp. 15-36.
‘Reinterpreting Nature in Early Modern Europe: Natural Philosophy, Biblical
Exegesis, and the Contemplative Life’, in K. Killeen and P. Forshaw (eds.), The
Word and The World: Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Modern Science
(London, 2007), pp. 25-44.
‘The Natural Philosopher and the Virtues’, in C. Condren, I. Hunter, and S. Gaukroger
(eds.), The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity
(Cambridge, 2006), pp. 202-28.
‘Natural Theology, Deism, and Early Modern Science’ in A. Eisen and G. Laderman
(eds.), Science, Religion, and Society, 2 vols., (New York, 2006), pp. 426-440.
Polish tr. forthcoming in Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy.
‘Having Dominion: Genesis and the Mastery of Nature’, in R. J. Berry (ed.),
Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives – Past and Present (London,
2006), pp. 17-31.
‘Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology, and the Making of Western
Modernity’, in H. Meissinger, W. Drees & Z. Liana (eds.), Wisdom or Knowledge?
Science, Theology and Cultural Dynamics (London, 2006), pp. 51-72. Spanish tr. in
Ciensias y Teologia: en la Dinamica de las Cultures ed. José M. Romero Baró y
Manuel G. Doncel (Barcelona, 2010).

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‘“The Book of Nature” and Early Modern Science’, in K. van Berkel and Arjo
Vanderjagt (eds.), The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History,
(Leuven, 2006), pp. 1-26.
11 biographical articles in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vierte Auflage, hg.
Hans Deiter Betz et al., 8 vols., (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998-2005), VIII. s.v.:
‘Thorndike, Herbert’, ‘Tillotson, John’, ‘Tindal, Matthew’, ‘Walton, Brian’,
‘Warburton, William’, ‘Waterland, Daniel’, ‘Watson, Thomas’, ‘Whichcote,
Benjamin’, ‘Whiston, William’, ‘Wilkins, John’, ‘Woolston, Thomas’.
‘Physico-theology and the Mixed Sciences: The Role of Theology in Early Modern
Natural Philosophy’, in Peter Anstey and John Schuster (eds.), The Science of Nature
in the Seventeenth Century (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), pp. 165-183.
‘Was Newton a Voluntarist?’, in James E. Force and Sarah Hutton (eds.), Newton and
Newtonianism: New Studies, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), pp. 39-64.
‘Reading Vital Signs: Animals and the Experimental Philosophy’, in Erica Fudge (ed.),
Renaissance Beasts (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004), pp. 186-207.
‘“Priests of the Most High God, with respect to the Book of Nature”: The Vocational
Identity of the Early Modern Naturalist’, in Reading God’s World, ed. Angus
Menuge (St Louis: Concordia, 2004), pp. 55-80.
‘Noah’s Flood and the Western Imagination’, in Paul Thom (ed.), Flood: Essays Across
the Current (Lismore: Southern Cross, 2004), pp. 1-28.

‘Morgan, Thomas (d 1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004), 39, 147-9.
‘Design’, and ‘Enthusiasm’, in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern
World, 6 vols., ed. J. Dewald (New York: Scribners, 2004), II, 132-4; III, 308-10.
http://www.answers.com/design; http://www.answers.com/topic/enthusiasm
‘Science’, Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 4 vols., ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand (New York:
Routledge, 2003), IV, 1669-75.
‘Science, Origins of’, Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 vols., ed. J. Wentzel
van Huyssteen (New York: Macmillan, 2003), II, 779-82.
‘Scaling the Ladder of Being: Theology and Early Modern Theories of Evolution’, in
R. Crocker (ed.), Religion, Reason, and Nature in Early Modern Europe (Dordrecht:
Kluwer, 2001), pp. 199-224.
‘The Influence of Cartesian Cosmology in England’, in S. Gaukroger, J. Schuster, and
J. Sutton (eds.), Descartes’ Natural Philosophy, (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 168-
92.
‘Reading the Passions: The Fall, the Passions, and Dominion over Nature’, in S.
Gaukroger (ed.), The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth
Century (London: Routledge, 1998) pp. 49-78.
[V] FORTHCOMING

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The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).
‘The Bible and the Emerging Scientific World View’, The New Cambridge History of
the Bible, c 1450-c.1750, ed. Euan Cameron (Cambridge, 2014).
‘Religions and Beliefs’, in Ralph Anderson (ed.), Belief and its Alternatives in Greek
and Roman Religion (Cambridge: CUP, 2014).
Review: Stephen Gaukroger, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility:
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2010), Isis, 104 (2013), forthcoming.
[V] SELECTED NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
‘Can Science and Religion be Friends?’, Australasian Science 36/1 (2015), 39.
‘Christianity and the Rise of Western Science’, ABC, Religion and Ethics, 8 May
2012; republished in Case 32 (2012), 13-18.
‘Does Science make belief in God Obsolete?’ ABC, Religion and Ethics, 11 April
2012.
‘Distilling the Conflict Myth’, Journey, July 2010, pp. 1, 8.
‘Those Meddling Scientists?’, Church Times 7669, 12 March, 2010, pp. 19-20
‘The Delusions of Richard Dawkins’, Journey, May, 2007, 10.
‘The Bible and the Rise of Science’, Australasian Science 23/3, April, 2002, 14-16.
‘God of Math and Order’, Christian History, 76 (2002), 18-24.
‘The False Dawn of the New Age’, Journey, May, 1989, 4-5, 18
‘God Bless America: Popular Religion in the USA’, Journey, July 1987, 14-15.
‘Bioethics: Are We Asking the Right Questions?’ Journey, March, 1986, 11-12.
[VI] RECENT BOOK REVIEWS (2001-2010)

2013 Stephen Gaukroger, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility:
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010), Isis, 104 (2013), forthcoming.

2011 Margaret J. Osler, Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human
Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe (Johns
Hopkins, 2010), Isis 102 (2011), 749-50

2010 David Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and
Catholics from London to Vienna (Princeton, 2008), Journal of
Ecclesiastical History (68) 198-99.

2009 Steven Matthews, Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon
(Ashgate, 2008), in Isis 99 (2009), 660-1

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2007 ‘Historia’s History’, review of G. Pomata and N. Siraisi (eds.), Historia:
Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe, (MIT Press, 2005) in
Metascience 16 (2007), 321-5.

2006 David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), When Science and
Christianity Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), in
Metascience14 (2006).

Paul Wood (ed.), Science and Dissent (Ashgate, 2004), Minerva, 44 (2006),
223-227.

2004 Jan Boersema, The Torah and the Stoics on Humankind and Nature (Leiden:
Brill, 2001), in Theologische Literaturzeitung 129 (2004), 757-9.

2002 ‘The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book’, review of Marina Frasca-
Spada and Nick Jardine (eds.), Books and the Sciences in History
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), in Metascience 11 (2002),
81-85.

‘John Milton, Naturalist’, review of Karen Edwards, Milton and the Natural
World (Cambridge University Press, 2000), in Metascience 11 (2002), 70-3.

Barbara Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Enquiry
(University of Chicago Press, 2001), in Isis 93 (2002), 120f.

Joseph Bracken, The One in the Many (Eerdmans, 2001), in Theology Today
59 (2002), 340 (Book Note)

Kenneth Howell, God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical
Interpretation in Early Modern Science (Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 2001), in Isis 93 (2002), 482-5.

2001 Ronald L. Numbers & John Stenhouse (eds.), Disseminating Darwinism: The
Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000), in Australian Religious Studies Review, 14 (2001), 68-70.

John Earman, Hume’s Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles
(Oxford University Press, 2000), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 39
(2001), 588-90.

John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
(University of California Press, 2000), in Theology Today 13 (2001), 101-3.
(Book Note)

Recent Presentations (2011-14)
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2014

• Plenary Lecture, ‘Contingency, Providence, and the Historical Sciences’,

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